Deadhead Social Science

'You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want to Know'

Rebecca G. Adams, Robert Sardiello (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2000
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7425-0251-2 (ISBN)

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Deadhead Social Science is a collection of papers examining various aspects of the complex subculture surrounding the rock band, the Grateful Dead. Deadheads, as Grateful Dead fans are called, followed the band from venue to venue until the band announced their dissolution in December of 1995 and have continued to follow bands including various surviving members of the Grateful Dead since then. Deadhead Social Science addresses the questions: What is a Deadhead? How does a Deadhead identity evolve? Why would a person choose an identity that would be viewed negatively by a larger society? Why are Deadheads viewed negatively by the larger society? Is the Deadhead community a popular religion? How did a rock band develop a religious following? The book also examines the music, the role of vendors, and the reaction by "host" communities to the Grateful Dead and its following. One key theme in Deadhead Social Science is the interconnections among teaching, research, and personal interests written from a variety of social science disciplinary traditions.

Rebecca G. Adams, PhD, Professor of Sociology and gerontologist in the School of Health and Social Sciences at University North Carolina Greensboro, has published 5 books and more than 70 scholarly articles and chapters, including more than 15 on Deadheads. She has taught about Deadheads on tour (1989), on campus, (2000s), and online (2019); presented at the SWPACA Grateful Dead Caucus, at other professional meetings, and to student audiences; written popular press articles about Deadheads, published a fictional piece situated on Dead tour, conducted audience research for Grateful Dead Productions, and narrated Deadheads an American Subculture (1990). She attended her first Dead show in 1970. Robert Sardiello, MA, is adjunct professor of sociology at Nassau Community College and has published several scholarly pieces concerning Deadheads. He attended his first Dead show in 1977.

chapter 1 Part I: Introduction
chapter 2 "What Goes Around Comes Around": Collaborative Research and Learning
chapter 3 Part II: Music
chapter 4 The Grammar of the Grateful Dead
chapter 5 Other People Play the Music: Improvisation as Social Interaction
chapter 6 Part III: Spirituality
chapter 7 The Deadhead Community: Popular Religion in Contemporary American Culture
chapter 8 "We Were Given this Dance": Music and Meaning in the Early Unlimited Devotional Family
chapter 9 Part IV: Outside the Show
chapter 10 Vending at Dead Shows: The Bizarre Bazaar
chapter 11 Community Reaction to Deadhead Subculture
chapter 12 Part V: Identity
chapter 13 Becoming a Deadhead
chapter 14 An Eriksonian Perspective on the Journey Through Deadhead Adulthood
chapter 15 Self-Concept and Ego Extension Among Grateful Dead Fans
chapter 16 Deadheads and Dichotomies: Mediated and Negotiated Readings
chapter 17 Part VI: Conclusion
chapter 18 Studying Deadhead Subculture

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2000
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7425-0251-1 / 0742502511
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-0251-2 / 9780742502512
Zustand	Neuware